Popular Fresh=Water Game Fish 



Another species similar in appearance is the 

 rock bass, or red eye, also the warmouth, the 

 calico or strawberry bass, and the crap{)ie, all 

 found in the same waters as the black bass; but 

 they arc of little or no importance to the angler in 

 comparison. The warmouth (called a perch in 

 some localities) for its size is a gamy fish, so is the 

 rock bass ; both the latter rising to the fly, at times, 

 but so do many of the common fishes, not game, 

 to be treated in a separate chapter under that 

 name. 



GRAYLING 



The American grayling, like the mascalonge, 



is confined to the Middle Western States, more 



particularly to Montana and Michigan; notwith- 



standino; the many efforts to plant them in 

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Eastern waters, including those hatched 



and shipped from Bozeman by Dr. J. A. Henshall 



in 1898, they have resulted in no apparent good. I 



know of no place in Eastern waters worthy of 



being called "fishing" for grayling. The family 



consists of three species: Michigan, Mon- 

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tana, and Arctic grayling, the latter having 



the great dorsal fin much larger and more highly 



colored, the two former being very similar in both 



appearance and game qualities. It is a graceful, 



trimly built, and delicate-looking fish, colored more 



like "mother of pearl " than any fish I know. 



Its habit is to lie at the bottom of deep, 

 slow-moving, clear cold water, and it rises to the 

 fly many times, swiftly darting back without taking 

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